{"id":216918,"date":"2025-09-11T01:10:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T01:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/216918\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T01:10:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T01:10:20","slug":"rory-diamond-criticizes-councilmembers-who-walked-out-over-budget-dispute-at-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/216918\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory Diamond criticizes councilmembers who walked out over budget dispute at meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">Jacksonville City Councilman Rory Diamond fired back at the four councilmembers who abruptly walked out of Tuesday\u2019s meeting during budget amendment discussions.<br \/>\nCouncilmembers Rahman Johnson, Jimmy Peluso, Ju\u2019Coby Pittman, and Reggie Gaffney Jr. walked out after a split vote on the city\u2019s millage rate, during a contentious debate over the \u201cBig Beautiful Budget Amendments\u201d proposed by Diamond.<br \/>\nPittman said she had issues with the budget that restricts money for undocumented immigrants, abortion-related services and funding for diversity, equity and inclusion programs, which were already eliminated in Florida.<br \/>\nShe said the amendments inject culture war issues into local government, but Diamond said his legislation is what Jacksonville people want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS Jacksonville City Councilman Rory Diamond fired back at the four councilmembers who abruptly walked out of Tuesday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":216919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,5310,8314,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-216918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city-council","10":"tag-duval-county","11":"tag-fl","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-jacksonville","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115183001757747947","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}